Cuff-protector.



N. CERRI.

CUFF PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1, 1909.

955,631 Patented Apr. 19, 1910.

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curr-rnorncronfi Application filed March 1, 1908. Serial No. 480,645.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NicoLA CERRI, a subject of the King of Italy, resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Protectors, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle so 'as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to cufi' protectors adapted to be slipped over the outer ends of shirt cuffs, the endsof which latter are connected with double headed link, or bar buttons extending across the inside of the cult from buttonhole to buttonhole.

The invention has for its object theprovision of a cufi protector of the above described character which will be economical in its structiire, readily attached and detached, and which may be caused to engage so as to be firmly and securely held in place.

The said invention consists of means hereinafter fully described and particularly set forth in the claim.

.of the protector are made substantially perendicular to the front edge a so as to proect slightly beyond the edge of .the cuff and thereby protect the latter. The inner edge a of the ends of the outside fia is formed with incisions a. consisting 0 an inner enlarged portiona and an outer contracted neck portion at. The contracted neck portion a is made of -asuiiicient width to readily admit of the insertion therethrough'of a link of the wit button. The of the enlarged portion a to the edge portion a. of the protector is made substantially equal to the ing average distance of the buttonhole from the front edge of the cuff. A variation of the distance of the cuff button from the front edge of the cufi is permitted by the provision of this enlarged portion a. It -will therefore be seen that the protector may be readily attached to cuffs of varying sizes,

such variation being limited only by. the

height of the enlarged portion a. A variation of the distance of the buttonhole from the side edge of the cuff may also be permitted, and the protector may still be prop- Specification of Letters liatent. Patented Apr. 19, 1910. i

erly attached to the cuff, such variation being limited by the width of the enlarged portion a as will be readily understood.

The inslde flap a is cut away as at a to avoid being placed contiguous to the incisions a and thereby interfering with the proper placing of the protector by reason of its avoidance of engagement with the link of the cuff button. This insideflap is divided in the middle as at a in the usual manner so that it may be readily bent at that point, and thereby. allowed to assume and maintain its norma bent position.

I am aware that cufi protectors have been made and used in which the two ends of the inside 'fiap have been provided with notches for en button. This orm of protector, however, has been limited in its use inthat it could only be properlyapplied and secured to a cult wherein the distance from the front .edge thereof, equal to the distance of the notches from the front edge of the protector, it' being understood of course, that the proper position which the protector occupies with relation to the cult is that in which the front edge of the cuff is in direct contact of the front edge protector. Those with the inner surface portion or loop of the previously constructed protectors were also capable of proper ap-' plication to cuffs of but one given size.

My improved protector however, as above described, may be attached to cnfls of varysizes and in which the location of the buttonhole therein varies. Its construction furthermore permits it to en age a link of a cufi button'which is of a li exible character as when made in the form of a chain, and be securely held, as will be readily un derstood.

buttonhole was located a Having fully described my invention, Whit I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is As a new article of manufacture, a cufi i button, the inside flap beingzcut away at 10 its outer ends so as to be non-contiguous .to said incisions.

Signed by me, this 27th day of February NICOLA CERRI. Attested by 7 WILLIAM Rose MILLER, TERESA HOLLIS. 

